· Private foundation
Ned R McWherter Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of Ned R McWherter Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Community Foundation of West Tennessee | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $25,000 |
| Clinton Foundation | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Swan Ball 2025 | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Folds of Honor | $7,500 |
| RIFA | $7,500 |
| The Star Center | $7,500 |
| Weakley County Library Board | $7,000 |
| Jackson Boys & Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Global Citizens Adventure Corps | $4,000 |
| Ned Ray McWherter Institute | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +26%
- AJANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +8%
- BUBelmont University2× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +99%
- SHSULTANA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -43%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WEST TENNESSEEone grant, 2024 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See Disclosure Above.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To explore and celebrate the innovative leadership and value that has shaped the community and provide educational and social opportunities to connect the past to the present and enhance the quality of life.
Education
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
We preserve and promote the unique historic value of blount mansion.
To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.
The Tennessee Museum of Aviation is dedicated to the preservation of aviation history, the advancement of education, and the honoring of historical aviators.
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
Fundraising for educational and related support of Middle Tennessee State University
Preservation and improvements to the tennessee executive residence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Citizen Adventure Corps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Star Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Up Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Regions Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ned R McWherter Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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